With today being Independence Day in the US here's a look at the college players on Team USA.

The top college players each year play on Team USA. Here's a sampling of the players over the last few years:

• 2005: Stubbs, Scherzer and Kennedy (for whatever reason most of the players ended up in the Cape League last year)
• 2004: Zimmerman, Gordon, Tulowitzki, Clement, Romero, Hochevar, and Pelfrey
• 2003: Street, Weaver, Verlander and Clement
• 2002: Quentin, Jackson, Hill, Weeks, Cordero, Street, and Sleeth

Other Team USA alumni include: Oswalt, Prior, Burrell, Crosby, Garciaparra, Glaus, Helton, Mauer, McGwire, Mulder, Teixiera, and Sheets.

This year's team is made up of 1 junior, 14 sophmores, and 8 freshman. The sophmores will be eligible for next year's draft (and depending on their birthday possible a freshman or two).

Here's a look at the hitters (stats are from the 05/06 college baseball season):

And a look at the pitchers:

What's interesting is that the six pitchers with the best strikeout rates are all left handed.

Four of the above players made BA's top 12 college prospects for the 2007 draft: David Price (1), Arencibia (5), Sean Doolittle (9), and Todd Frazier (12).

With numerous free agents and being unlikely to sign a premium free agent this offseason the Jays could end up with a number of high draft picks in 2007 and chances are decent that some of these Team USA players will find their way into the Blue Jays organization.